Tag Archives: Maine

This week I made a trip back to Google Books to see if I could find a birth record for Benjamin Foss. I still have not found a birth record. However, I did find church baptism records for him and … Continue reading →

This week is a little tough for me to get my weekly dose of research in. I had to take a flight to Montreal today for business. However, I was able to take the Machias vital records with me on … Continue reading →

This book has a wealth of information that is applicable to my search about my downeast ancestors. It was published in 1863 by C.O. Furbush and written by William B Smith. Below is the text from the genealogy section of … Continue reading →

One of the books that have been helpful in learning about my downeast ancestors is The Narrative of the town of Machias. This book was written by George Washington Drisko. It was published in Machias, Me in 1904 by the … Continue reading →

I decided to spend more time on Google this week to continue my search for Benjamin Foss. First, I found out another great piece of source information that pointed me to who Benjamin’s parents were and possibly the emigrating ancestor. … Continue reading →

Today I decided to spend a few hours searching on Google books for Benjamin Foss. The Internet address for Google books is http://books.google.com. I decided to just put the search term Benjamin Foss Machias Maine. It is amazing how many … Continue reading →

I hope that this will be the first of many blog postings about who I am researching and things that I find about my fathers family. Like most people that enjoy genealogy, I have an account on Ancestry.com and enjoy … Continue reading →